Milwaukee Brewers vs Boston Red Sox
May 31, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1980 at Fenway Park. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Milwaukee Brewers 19, Boston Red Sox 8

Milwaukee Brewers ab   r   h rbi
Molitor 2b 6 3 4 4
  Bando 3b 0 0 0 0
Yount ss 5 2 3 2
Cooper 1b 6 1 2 2
Davis dh 6 2 2 2
Oglivie rf 6 3 3 2
Thomas cf 5 2 1 1
Gantner 3b,2b 5 3 3 3
Brouhard lf 5 1 2 0
Moore c 5 2 2 2
Caldwell p 0 0 0 0
  Cleveland p 0 0 0 0
  McClure p 0 0 0 0
Totals 49 19 22 18
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 5 1 1 1
Stapleton 2b 5 2 2 2
Rice lf 5 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 2 2 1
Fisk c 2 2 2 1
  Allenson c 0 0 0 0
Hobson dh 4 1 2 3
Evans rf 1 0 0 0
  Yastrzemski ph,cf 1 0 1 0
Hoffman 3b 4 0 0 0
Dwyer cf,rf 4 0 2 0
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
  Macwhorter p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
  Lockwood p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 8 12 8
Milwaukee 008 001 64019220
Boston 100 402 0018121
  Milwaukee Brewers IP H R ER BB SO
Caldwell   3.1 6 5 5 1 1
  Cleveland  W (3-2) 4.1 5 2 2 3 1
  McClure   1.1 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
12
8
8
4
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez  L (1-5) 2.1 5 5 5 1 1
  Macwhorter   1.2 4 3 3 1 0
  Drago   2.1 4 4 4 0 1
  Lockwood   2.2 9 7 6 0 0
Totals
9.0
22
19
18
2
2

  E–Rice (1).  DP–Milwaukee 4.  2B–Milwaukee Molitor (12,off Torrez); Davis (7,off Torrez); Gantner (4,off MacWhorter); Oglivie (9,off Drago); Moore (4,off Lockwood); Cooper (12,off Lockwood); Thomas (7,off Lockwood); Yount (15,off Lockwood), Boston Fisk (10,off Cleveland).  HR–Milwaukee Yount (8,6th inning off Drago 0 on, 2 out); Molitor (4,7th inning off Lockwood 2 on, 1 out), Boston Burleson (4,1st inning off Caldwell 0 on, 0 out); Stapleton 2 (2,4th inning off Caldwell 0 on, 0 out,9th inning off McClure 0 on, 2 out); Perez (7,4th inning off Caldwell 0 on, 1 out); Fisk (7,4th inning off Caldwell 0 on, 1 out); Hobson (6,4th inning off.  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Dale Ford, 2B–Greg Kosc, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–3:12.  A–30,381.
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